cabal

As a haskell package, git-annex can be installed using cabal.

Start by installing the Haskell Platform, and then:

cabal update
PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
cabal install c2hs git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin

The above downloads the latest release and installs it into a ~/bin/ directory, which you can put in your PATH.

But maybe you want something newer (or older). Then download the version you want, and use cabal as follows inside its source tree:

cabal update
PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
cabal install c2hs --bindir=$HOME/bin
cabal install --only-dependencies
cabal configure
cabal build
cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin

Cabal dependencies

After finishing the installation the cabal way, here are the packages I installed. It is possible that there are other packages I installed previously as dependency for other packages.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release:    12.04
Codename:   precise

$ apt-get install cabal-install libgnutls28-dev libgsasl7-dev c2hs libghc-libxml-sax-dev zlib1g-dev libghc-zlib-dev
$ cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin

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